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dng file.įinally, external storage is cheap, even in massive drive sizes. xmp sidecars instead of placing edits directly in the original. (Capture One didn't exist at the time.)ĭo not try to find an alternative for. A wise person told me years ago, quit trying out new image processing software and spend your time becoming an expert user of Photoshop. If you are serious, if you want the best images you can get from your sensor, the usual choices are Capture One or the Adobe Photo Plan, often augmented with some plug-ins. These programs could disappear overnight, but I doubt they will.īut overall, you have to decide how serious you are about your photography and your post-processing. Remember that open source software depends on the continued interest of the group that contributes to the code. Both work very well once you get used to them. If you want an open source Photoshop equivalent, try Gimp. I think open source DarkTable is a very practical option for you to explore. In your opinion, how terrible an idea is that? (I suppose I could also just do all my Leica M8 image editing in the Open Source software "DarkTable" and hope that it will eventually include the tools I use in DxO PhotoLab.) dng format original image? All my images eventually get converted to a. tif image, when both are being converted from a. In your opinion, how terrible an idea is that? Or worded better, how much worse would it be to work with a. jpg which would get me small file sizes and a universal image format. dng format, and use Apple Preview to convert the image to. Something I haven't even considered is to shoot in the Leica M8's. I doubt DxO will spend the time and money to work with Leica M8 photos in PhotoLab, as so few people use the M8. jpg files which limits my choices during processing. So my choice becomes converting my Leica M8. dng would be the best choice for me, as that is how my camera saves the data. Apparently there is no good answer to my dilemma. psd do so at the benevolence of Adobe because Adobe openly publishes the file specs for anyone to use.Īfter reading your post several times, there is a lot of information there that I was not aware of before (or I forgot). psd.xmp is now an ISO standard, but it too was created by Adobe.jpg is not owned by Adobe, nor was it created by Adobe. You may think you are dumping Adobe by using. tif to be a more stable standard for long-term (archival) preservation of images.jpg cannot save layers layers must be collapsed. tif can store the same metadata and can save layers without collapsing them.psd is a newer version of. dng file.tif is a raster image created from your camera's sensor data using some profile. xmp sidecar file when sidecars are used, there is absolutely no change to the original. Alternately Lightroom can save edits in a. dng file to store edit's made in a post-processing software such as Lightroom, which is why the file date changes as processing. There is only a table of values from your camera's sensor, along with the metadata from the creation of the file such as the camera's properties. The set is produced by label owner/musician Cory Weeds and "Jazz Detective" producer Zev Feldman. This hand-numbered (limited edition worldwide of 3000), double LP set was transferred from the original tape reels and is pressed on 180g vinyl and boasts 100 minutes of music, The gatefold sleeve includes an extensive booklet with essays by esteemed jazz journalist Ted Panken and jazz video journalist and friend of Bishop's, Bret Primack, rare photos by Don Schlitten, Raymod Ross and Jan Persson, and poetry pieces written by Bishop. Ain't A Jury In The World Gon' Convict You, Babyīish at the Bank: Live in Baltimore is an official, previously unissued set of recordings by one of the unsung heroes of bepop jazz piano, Walter Bishop Jr., featuring a swinging trio with Harold Vick on saxophone, Lou McIntosh on bass and Dick Berk on drums. The Coke Bottle Clear vinyl edition can be found only at record stores starting on Record Store Day 2023.ĥ. ItÂ’s finally being reissued in a beautiful deluxe double vinyl package that includes unreleased material and an amazing remaster by Amy Dragon. NPR Music, Rolling Stone and Magnet Magazine all named it as one of the best albums of the year, the latter linking the album to “both Revolver and StankoniaÂ….” The albumÂ’s status has only grown as TIME Magazine recently listed it as one of the ten best albums of that decade. H01_Spiritual Rebirth - Light In Darkness - Infinite Spirit 11:00īeauty PillÂ’s ambitious double album Describes Things As They Are was originally released in 2015 to rave reviews. Paris Jazz Festival on November 13, 1966. The release will be available for Record Store Day 2023, with each LP pressed on audiophile-grade black vinyl at Pallas Group in Germany.ī01_Our Prayer - Truth Is Marching In 5:06 The package also includes a 12 x 24 fold-out insert, featuring liner notes from John Litweller and photos from the tour. These performances have been remastered for vinyl by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic Mastering. Ayler's masterful band on this tour included his brother Donald on trumpet, Michel Samson on violin, William Folwell on double bass, and Beaver Harris on drums. The release includes performances from Berlin, Lörrach, Stockholm, and Paris, all of which occurred within a two week span. Each of the 4 LP's highlights some of the most magnificent moments on this European tour, showcasing Ayler and his bandmates at the height of their powers. Asnoushka Shankar (Live at the Barbican)Įurope 1966 is a box set consisting of live performances from free jazz visionary Albert Ayler. “Performing with Anoushka was an incredible honor, and at times, I was close to tears to be witnessing it happen at all! A night for the books for sure.” “This show in London was hands down one of our best of the yearÂ… the audience was large in number, wild with excitement and exclaim, diverse as could be, appropriately hushed and moved, rowdy and laughingÂ… all the things we love Vulture Prince to be,” Arooj said, describing the performance. Anoushka Shankar)” and AroojÂ’s GRAMMY® Award-winning hit “Mohabbat” from Vulture Prince. Side B features the studio recordings of “Udhero Na (ft. Led by Arooj Aftab (vocals), side A of the vinyl features Anoushka Shankar (sitar) accompanied by band members Darian Donovan Thomas (violin), Maeve Gilchrist (harp) and Petros Klampanis (bass) on two live tracks. Available for the first time on vinyl, and pressed on opaque red vinyl. Recorded live at GRAMMY® winner Arooj AftabÂ’s triumphant sold-out headline show at LondonÂ’s Barbican Centre on June 17, 2022. Wings|Sunset Boulevard|Hidden Conversations|John Lee Hooker|Live With Me|Once I Dreamed Of Heaven Terry collaborated with the producers Christopher Grabowski and Mark Hardy on the remaining other songs on the album. The combination of Robert Del NajaÂ’s haunting production and TerryÂ’s captivating, emotive vocals fused beautifully. Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja co-wrote ‘WingsÂ’, ‘John Lee Hooker', and ‘Live With MeÂ’. After coming out of musical semi-retirement and returning to the stage in the 90s, Terry's light continued to shine, wowing both old and new audiences with the exquisite beauty his music and voice channelled.įollowing his stunning performance at the 2008 Meltdown Festival, curated by Massive Attack, Terry teamed up with the legendary British trio, which resulted in ‘Hidden Conversations'. The late, great Terry Callier was an icon and inspiration to many his work on Cadet Records with Charles Stepney and Elektra in the 70s made him a cult artist. The first step to becoming a certified bookkeeper is ensuring you’ve met all professional and educational requirements. Earning your credential is going to take time, effort and patience, but the career advantages you’ll gain are well worth the effort.Īfter you’ve decided to pursue one of these professional designations, you must complete the following steps. The first step to becoming a CB or CPB is making the decision to do so. 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It works on a deeper level when you remember that this series is a homage to yakuza cinema, and in the history of yakuza cinema, it has often been thematically associated with samurai films (I did a video on that subject, which you can watch here). It was like these characters were actors in an NHK historical drama, and as meta as that is, it is quite appropriate for a series that has always been almost too clever for its own good. But the deeper I got into the game the more I appreciated the performative nature of it. It was too distracting from the historical fiction I was trying to immerse myself within. Our review of Lost Judgment.Īdmittedly at first, I didn’t like the dissonance I was feeling. Related reading: Another Yakuza spinoff that is a must-play is the Judgment series. Goro Majima was a particularly different character to see as anyone other than the wild yakuza, Goro Majima, too. I felt cognitive dissonance seeing Haruka in a traditional kimono rather than her school uniform (and then, later, pop idol gear). As I joked above, I really did have difficulty visualising the protagonist as Sakamoto rather than Kiryu. I did find it surprisingly difficult to get past the use of th e characters from the Yakuza series at first, though. While the story is fictitious, the names and several key events are not, and unlike a certain other game set in Japanese history, the Ryu Ga Gotoku team actually know how to do a fictional story while remaining authentic to the real history. Indeed, if you’re paying attention you’ll probably learn bits and pieces about the era while you’re at it. Just like the brilliant Yakuza 0 took full advantage of the 80s era to craft something distinctive, so too does this game. The only real difference is the historical period that it takes place in, and the freedom that setting gave the developers to share some new stories. Sakamoto didn’t get to identify the assassin on the night of the attack, though, so he joins the Shinsengumi to get his detective on.įrom there the plot twists and turns in a way that only the Yakuza series can achieve, and it is very much the digital equivalent of a page-turner. Sakamoto knows it must have been one of the group, because the fighting style of the assassin is only performed by the Shinsengumi. See, in Ishin, someone in the Shinsengumi murdered Sakamoto’s father in the Tosa domain. In this game, he is also working against them, but he does so by infiltrating them and becoming one of the leaders of the group. The real Sakamoto worked against the Shogun and was actively hunted by the Shinsengumi. You play as Kiryu, sorry, Sakamoto Ryōma, who was a real historical figure, but this particular take on his story is fictional. This is the group that sits at the core of the story in Like A Dragon: Ishin. They had a fearsome reputation and fought with distinction in several battles of the era. They were formed in Kyoto to protect the interests of the Shogun, and were, effectively, a military police force. The Shinsengumi was one of the most powerful antagonists of the era. There were outright rebellions, a lot of xenophobia and racism towards foreigners that travelled to now-accessible Japan, and plenty of plots to overthrow the government. They aligned themselves behind the Shogun (the de facto ruler of Japan prior to Perry’s arrival, but largely powerless as Japan adopted western political ideology), and tended to get very violent about it. However, for all that progress there was also a strong traditionalist and nationalist undercurrent in Japanese culture, and that group didn’t like change at all. Realising that they were a candidate for European or American colonisation, Japan kicked into overdrive to modernise to the point that the white folk wouldn’t try calling them “barbarians that need civilizing.” Japan had previously been isolationist in nature, but America showed up, and demanded the country open its borders on the threat of invasion and annihilation (this is an aside, but Matthew Perry – the commodore, not the actor – was a monumental arsehole). The Meiji Era – which ran from 1868-1912, was a turbulent period. Related reading: The place to start with the Yakuza series is Yakuza Kiwami. Like A Dragon: Ishin! might not have “Yakuza” in the title, but it is very much one of these games… just with the added benefit of being placed in one of the most fascinating periods of Japanese history. There are three things I look forward to in a Yakuza game: Exceptional writing and storytelling, a vibrant and interesting open world (rare, given how dull and bloated most open worlds are), and an authentic setting that makes me homesick for Japan. It uses dynamic name resolution ( late binding), which binds method and variable names during program execution. Python uses dynamic typing and a combination of reference counting and a cycle-detecting garbage collector for memory management. Many other paradigms are supported via extensions, including design by contract and logic programming. Object-oriented programming and structured programming are fully supported, and many of their features support functional programming and aspect-oriented programming (including metaprogramming and metaobjects). Python is a multi-paradigm programming language. The first release candidate of Python 3.12 was offered on 6 August 2023. Since 27 June 2023, Python 3.8 is the oldest supported version of Python (albeit in the 'security support' phase), due to Python 3.7 reaching end-of-life. Notable changes from 3.10 include increased program execution speed and improved error reporting. Īs of November 2022, Python 3.11 is the stable release. On September 7, 2022, four new releases were made due to a potential denial-of-service attack: 3.10.7, 3.9.14, 3.8.14, and 3.7.14. When Python 3.9.13 was released in May 2022, it was announced that the 3.9 series (joining the older series 3.8 and 3.7) would only receive security fixes in the future. In 2022, Python 3.10.4 and 3.9.12 were expedited and 3.8.13, because of many security issues. In 2021, Python 3.9.2 and 3.8.8 were expedited as all versions of Python (including 2.7 ) had security issues leading to possible remote code execution and web cache poisoning. Currently only 3.8 and later are supported (2023 security issues were fixed in e.g. No further security patches or other improvements will be released for it. Python 2.7's end-of-life was initially set for 2015, then postponed to 2020 out of concern that a large body of existing code could not easily be forward-ported to Python 3. Releases of Python 3 include the 2to3 utility, which automates the translation of Python 2 code to Python 3. Python 3.0, released on 3 December 2008, with many of its major features backported to Python 2.6.x and 2.7.x. Python 2.0 was released on 16 October 2000, with many major new features such as list comprehensions, cycle-detecting garbage collection, reference counting, and Unicode support. In January 2019, active Python core developers elected a five-member Steering Council to lead the project. Van Rossum shouldered sole responsibility for the project, as the lead developer, until 12 July 2018, when he announced his "permanent vacation" from his responsibilities as Python's " benevolent dictator for life", a title the Python community bestowed upon him to reflect his long-term commitment as the project's chief decision-maker. Its implementation began in December 1989. Python was conceived in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC programming language, which was inspired by SETL, capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system. History The designer of Python, Guido van Rossum, at OSCON 2006 Python consistently ranks as one of the most popular programming languages. Python 2.7.18, released in 2020, was the last release of Python 2. Python 3.0, released in 2008, was a major revision not completely backward-compatible with earlier versions. Guido van Rossum began working on Python in the late 1980s as a successor to the ABC programming language and first released it in 1991 as Python 0.9.0. It is often described as a "batteries included" language due to its comprehensive standard library. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured (particularly procedural), object-oriented and functional programming. Python is dynamically typed and garbage-collected. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation. Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. 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Hyundai Motor sold more than 18,000 units of its electric vehicle (EV) models in August, proving that the company is solidifying its EV leadership in the global market. The Genesis luxury brand also maintained strong momentum with 9,180 units sold. Grandeur sold 8,820 units and Hyundai’s SUV models collectively sold 18,260 units in Korea. Sales in Korea increased 12.9 percent from the previous year's August sales of 55,555 units with the solid performance of new models, including Grandeur, and strong demand for SUV models. The gradual recovery from the global parts shortage and production stabilization has helped the company secure solid performance in North American, European and Indian markets. In August, s ales numbers outside Korea increased by 1.5 percent with 291,822 units. SEOUL, Septem– Hyundai Motor Company today announced global sales of 347,377 units in August 2023, a 3.2 percent increase year-over-year.ĭespite continued uncertainties in the business environment, the company is maintaining robust sales momentum due to the gradual recovery from the global parts shortage and the launch of new models, including the all-new KONA SUV and all-new Grandeur flagship sedan (badged as Azera outside of Korea).
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